Trump properties

Casting a 90-story shadow near the United Nations and East River, Trump World Tower once had a unit belonging to China Energy Finance Corp – a company known as CEFC that had grand designs on Russia’s state-run oil giant.

President Donald Trump may have issues with Chicago when it comes to gun violence and immigration, but the Illinois attorney general claims his namesake hotel has no problem with polluting the city’s river.

After two hours of oral arguments Thursday afternoon, a federal judge ruled from the bench to temporarily block Trump International Hotels from pursuing claims in international arbitration court against the owners of a former Trump hotel.

One of President Donald Trump’s family businesses is battling an effort to physically evict its team of executives from a luxury hotel in Panama where they manage operations, and police have been called to keep the peace, The Associated Press has learned. Witnesses told the AP they saw Trump’s executives carrying files to a room for shredding.

An investment group that has balked at the “objectively horrific mismanagement” of the Trump Panama Hotel claims in a federal complaint that the president’s business empire is trying to bully them into arbitration.

More than 60 groups, including foreign governments, political campaigns and business organizations, spent money at Trump-branded properties across the U.S. last year, according to a report Tuesday by a watchdog group that has long been critical of how such spending could be used to influence the president.

Seventeen Democratic House members sued the General Services Administration Thursday to gain access to records related to the Trump Organization’s lease on the luxury hotel located in the city’s historic Old Post Office building.

A report from Britain’s Companies House released late Friday showed losses last year at the Trump International Golf Links, and a second Trump resort on the other side of Scotland overlooking the Irish Sea
, lmore than doubled to 17.6 million pounds ($23 million). It was the third year in a row of losses. Revenue also fell sharply, the report says.

The Secret Service, which has been stationed inside Trump Tower since late 2015, has been relocated from the luxury hotel to a trailer just outside a midtown skyscraper after a lease agreement fell apart.

A legal advocacy group this week asked the state pension funds of New York and California to divest from President Donald Trump’s hotel management company, taking particular aim at Trump SoHo, a 46-story skyscraper overlooking the Hudson River.

A Washington judge on Thursday temporarily released a Pennsylvania doctor who was arrested at the Trump International Hotel with a rifle in his car, despite a prosecutor saying the man came to the Capitol under “concerning circumstances.”

A local wine bar claims President Donald Trump’s new job gives an unfair advantage to his glitzy Washington, D.C., hotel at the expense of other businesses competing for the attention of lobbyists, elected officials and other dignitaries.